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HIV Vaccine?
May 4, 2006
I recently read an article that address research being done on HIV-negative people for an HIV-vaccine. My question is is this a vaccine for the negative people only as prevention...or would this vaccine work for HIV positive people too somehow?
Howard
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Response from Dr. Daar
Hi Howard,
There are growing numbers of HIV vaccine strategies being pursued. Eventually some will target those HIV-uninfected to keep them that way and others HIV-infected to assist their body in controlling infection. At this point most of the work is deigned to simply find a strategy that induces a meaningful immune response in the body of animals and humans with the hope that they work at all. In fact, there are studies underway in both HIV-infected and uninfected to test the utility of various vaccine strategies currently available. The science is getting better in this area but there is still a long way to go.
Best,
Eric
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